Maine opens new travel office in Rockefeller Center
Gov. John H Reed opened Maine’s travel promotion office at 50 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, praising media support for Maine’s growth as a vacation state. The Maine Publicity Bureau operates the office, with rent paid by the state, and early visitor numbers rose from 14,000 to many times that amount. Ferried by Reed, officials noted Maine’s tourism as the second largest industry and traced early ventures from Poland Spring to Northeast Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John H Reed
Maine
Rockefeller Center
Associated Press
Rockefeller Plaza
RCA
Reed
New England
Poland Spring
Kimball House
Northeast Harbor
Union Official Denies Construction Discrimination Claim
Washington AP C Hagerty president AFL-CIO Building Trades Department says claims of widespread Negro discrimination in construction are nonsense. He cites a study of 65 firms in the plans for progress program showing 2.6 percent nonwhite employees and a Labor Department survey of 47 cities with 5.3 percent Negro apprentices. He argues building trades offer higher opportunity for Black craftsmen than other industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
C. J. Hagerly
Afl-Cio
W. Willard Wirtz
Haggerty
U.S
Committee On Equal Employment
Ceme
Hagerty
Labor Department
Doctors Operate On Convicted Dr Ward
London AP reports Dr Stephen Ward, a defendant in Britain’s sex and security scandal, remained in a coma after throat surgery to ease breathing. Surgeons performed a tracheotomy at St Stephen’s Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Britain
North Korea accuses U.S. of war plots amid border clashes
In Seoul the North Korean Foreign Ministry charges the United States with war provocation and accuses Washington of masking aggression in South Korea. It notes no mention of the ambush killings of two U.S. soldiers and a later clash that left four North Koreans and others dead. U.N. and U.S. patrols intensified searches along the Imjin River near the DMZ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
U.S
South
North Korea
United States
South Korea
Korea
Demilitarized Zone
U.N
Imjin River
Kim Sung-eun
Navy Command Swaps Hands
Adm. David L. McDonald took command as chief of naval operations in a change of command ceremony at the Washington naval station. Adm. George W. Anderson retired to become ambassador to Portugal, with McDonald praising Anderson's work and Anderson asserting the Navy is fortunate to have the new head. Secretary Fred Korth welcomed McDonald and bid farewell to Anderson. Kennedy appointed Anderson ambassador to Portugal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
David L. McDonald
Navy
Anderson
McDonald
Naval Operations
Maysville
6Th Fleet
Eastern Atlantic Command
Pentagon
Secretary of the Navy
Fred Korth
Goodby
Naval Station
Kennedy
Portugal
Searchers hold hope for missing plane occupants
In Albany New York searchers held hope for two missing men after their single engine Cessna vanished after leaving Albany airport around 130 am Tuesday. William Reed 47 of Nesconsett and Peter Martinez of Ronkonkoma were passengers on a chartered flight carrying Mr and Mrs George O Dean of Brightwaters to a Catskills summer camp where their son 12 George G Dean was killed in an accident Monday. Ground teams and radar sightings in Massachusetts and the Hudson Valley were pursued but confidence waned amid time gaps between the disappearance and radar reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
Long Island
Gardner
Mt. Wachusett
Massachusetts
Hudson Valley
New York
William Reed
Nesconsett
Peter Martinez
Ronkonkoma
Civil Air Patrol
George O. Dean
Brightwaters
West Kill
Catskills
George G
Westover Air Force Base
CAP
Reed Nominates Clergyman for Maine Arbitration Board
Augusta AP report notes Gov Reed's choice Rev John Brett Fort of Bangor as chairman of the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, replacing Edmund P Wells who resigned. Roy C Blake Sr of Brooklin named as alternate public member to succeed Fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Bangor
Reed
Board of Arbitration and Conciliation
John Brett Fort
Edmund P. Wells
Roy C. Blake Sr
Brooklin
Mr. Fort
Railroad workers dispute heats up as hearings near end
Washington AP The Senate Commerce Committee nears completion of hearings on Kennedy railroad wage row. Unions get another chance to testify on sending the dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Carriers reject a four senator substitute plan and say only the President’s approach offers a path to settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. E. Wolfe
Wolfe
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Congress
The
Commerce Commission
John O Pastore
D-R.i
Maine Education Commissioner Moves to New Jersey Post
Dr. Warren G. Hill of Augusta will resign as Maine commissioner of education on Oct. 1 to become president of Trenton State College in New Jersey. The appointment was announced in Trenton. Hill, a Gorham State Normal School graduate, led Maine public school education since September 1956 and gained national attention for work on school administration standards and curriculum. He helped consolidate small Maine schools under the Sinclair Act and advance state educational television.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Warren G. Hill
Maine
Trenton
N.J
State College
Hill
Buxton
Gorham State Normal School
Dr Stephen Ward convicted on two vice charges
Dr Stephen Ward is convicted on two vice charges and remains unconscious in a London hospital with improving condition. North Korea accuses the U.S. of war provocation plots amid infiltrations by Communist death squads. Eisenhower signals caution as Republicans maneuver for Senate action on the test ban treaty. U.S. scientists may learn within three months if man can tame hurricanes. A national union leader calls claims that job discrimination against Negroes is worse in construction unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Ward
Chelsea
Ward
NEA Radio
Associated Press International
London
North Korea
U.S
Washington
Feisehower
Senate
National Union
Kennedy
Aiken
Eisenhower Signals Caution on Nuclear Test Ban Pact
Former President Eisenhower urges a careful, nonpartisan look at the United States Soviet Britain pact to halt all but underground tests. He calls for military and scientific testimony before committing, aligning with GOP calls for a minute examination. The White House hopes Republican support could grow, with leaders urging a broad, unbiased Senate debate ahead of a possible ratification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell
Associated Press
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Eisenhower
New York
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Kennedy
Moscow
Leverett Saltonstall
R-Mass
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Dirksen
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Arowa
Republican Policy Committee
Scientists Will Try To Tame Hurricanes This Year
U S scientists plan three months of Storm fury seeding tests to reduce hurricane winds. Eleven airplanes will be used with Navy and Weather Bureau personnel to probe whether silver iodide seedings can alter storm energy in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Weather Bureau
Esther
U.S
Caribbean
Atlantic
Also Mentioned on This Page
New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Elks Lodge
Josephine Seidel
Claude
Fic
Seidel
Elizabeth Seidel
Oscar Perrault
Biddeford
Albin Seidel
New York City
Charles Seidel
Portland
Tea. Corp
Main St
Linoleum CO
Alfred Street
St. Stephen’s Hospital
W. Mayne Butcher
Red Squad
Yang Chun Soon
U. S
Col
William Higgins
Columbus, Ga
4Th U. S. Cavalry
Yang
NEA Radio-Telephoto
Navy Command
Clergyman
New Jersey
U.S. Office of Education A. Pn
Mansfield
Main Street
Atkit
Gale
Ammer Trems
Thuring
Bigaetor
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!